The good or bad?
Cadetship, my experiences were mixture of good and bad experiences but each one of it had something to be learned from. 15 th February 2016 was the day when I joined my first vessel, ‘MT Bunga Azalea’ from Kandla , India as a Deck Cadet. As on first day, I reported to C/O and Captain and proceeded with my shipboard familiarization. C/O asked me to report for my first assigned task as a deck cadet which was gangway watch along with Duty AB and he prioritised the proper PPE and safety in the briefing. I remember the second day was the most horrible for me as I got sea sick when we were passing through the rough weather in Indian ocean and my C/O asked me to stay in CCR instead of letting me go to take rest and sleep because according to him I had to learn “ how to fight sea sickness ” which at that time was not sounding reasonable enough to me but it turned out to be a lesson to be immune to the sea sickness. That was the first and last time that I got sea sick ever in my
